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TEN QUESTIONS TO DANIEL LIONEYE: HIS INFERNAL MAGAZINE INTERVIEWS MIKKO LINDSTRÖM
The interview here posted has been kindly given by Linde as an exclusive for His Infernal Magazine.
We thank him for the time he decided to give us, right when he’s busy with the guys in Los Angeles recording “Screamworks: love in theory and practice”, and for the friendship he’s showing towards us.
Our challenge will be to always give the best we can, through the magazine and the several initiatives we will create through the street team, to support HIM and Daniel Lioneye.
Rosanna
1) If you should make a budget of your whole career as a musician, what are the positive aspects and the negative ones that pop into your mind?.
L. Well its nice to be able to have a "job" that you actually enjoy. it doesn't feel like work to me. the worst part is having to spend time away from your family.
2) What is your musical contribute during the elaboration of an HIM album? How do you work and how do you collaborate with the others in the band while being in the studio?
L. Ville usually comes up with a skeleton of a song and then we jam at the rehearsal room and turn the thing over and over until it pleases us. by the time we go to studio, the songs are usually in a very good shape so we just try and perform them as good as we can...
3) How has your method to play guitar changed from Greatest Lovesongs until today?
L. I can't see my methods changing too much. i do have a lot more life experience now compared to the greatest lovesongs days. i am much more comfortable with myself as a person and as a musician. i don't care what people think about me as much as i used to. that enables me to express myself in a more pure way. i think this is one of the first things you will realize when you hear the new daniel lioneye album...
4) Now that you can effort buying expensive and efficient instruments, do you miss your old ones? Did you find it more funny to play with the old ones?
L. Its pretty fucked up that now that i would have the money to buy all these guitars and amps and whatever, i don't have to cause i'm endorsed by them so i get them for free. when we were starting out, i had to take a loan from the bank to buy a guitar. it should be the other way around!
5) Last spring your “The King of Rock’n’roll” has been chosen to be played at the Sibelius academy. How did you feel to be in the chosen ones?
L. I think you got this one wrong, or at least i haven't heard about it.
but i do know that the song was the most played finnish song in the world that year, right after sibelius. my mom was so proud! i just had to laugh!
6) What are your major inspiration sources?
L. Life is my inspiration. whatever comes my way is my inspiration.
7) What do you think about the musical landscape nowadays?
L. I have to admit that i get bored with music very easily. there is so much music around and most of it is shit. i listen to radio helsinki a lot. they don't have playlists so they can play anything they want and i enjoy that cause you rarely hear the same song twice. i hate that brainwashing mentality the commercial radios have. if you repeat a shitty song long enough, it starts to actually sound good. can't stand it! my favourite shows on radio helsinki are vilunki 3000's "super sunday" and ari peltonen's "paskalista".
8) What pushed you to take back the microphone in your hands and impersonate Daniel Lioneye again after so much time?
L. I have had a very difficult last 5 years or so. a lot of shit going on in my personal life. a lot of shit that has made me very fucking angry. this album is the result. a healthy way to let it all out.
9) Can you reveal us something about your new album? Will it be the same style of The King of Rock’n’roll or something different?
L. It’s going to be something completely different! i am very excited about it!
10) Who will be your companions? We have heard Ville won’t play drums anymore, and what about Migè and Hiili?
L. The album is produced and mixed by Hiili, my very close friend Bolton is on drums, Brton is on keys and I do the bass, the guitar and the vocals. Mige did help me with some of the lyrics, he is a genius!
Have a great weekend and thanks again!
Linde
(interview received by Rosanna for His Infernal Magazine)
The interview is full property of His Infernal Magazine and The Crimson Gate-HIM&Daniel Lioneye –Official Italian Street Team, and then published under the rule of the copyright; it’s strictly forbidden the partial or total re publishing without the permission of His Infernal Magazine and The Crimson Gate-HIM&Daniel Lioneye-Official Italian Street Team
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